Word: huges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This journey around the summit represented a huge investment of time and attention: 11 days (counting travel time) out of the President's jammed schedule, participation of several Cabinet Secretaries, 225 staff members, hundreds of military and security personnel, all pursued by more than 400 journalists. So what did this multitude accomplish, and did it matter...
Things got so bad that Boeing halted its 737 and 747 lines for nearly a month last October to clear up the snarl. The time-out eased congestion at the huge 747 factory in nearby Everett, Wash., which had raised its production from 3.5 planes a month to 4. But executives have been holding their breath as Renton strained to produce even 14 NG 737s a month before ratcheting up to 21 this fall...
...fact is that airlines have grown skillful at extracting deep discounts from Boeing and Airbus by holding out huge contracts and bargaining hard on terms. In its latest solicitation, British Airways took bids from Boeing and Airbus for 100 jets with a total value of some $3.8 billion. British Airways has never bought a plane from Airbus, and Boeing doesn't want the streak to end. So the jetmakers have been battling over everything from prices to innovative leasing deals that British Airways wants on highly favorable terms...
...that day were not just any termites. They were Formosan termites--the most voracious, aggressive and devious of over 2,000 termite species known to science. Formosan termites can chew their way through beams and plywood nine times as fast as their more laid-back cousins. Their colonies are huge, housing up to 10 million insects. They nest underground, in trees, in walls--just about anywhere there's wood and water. And they're on the move: long confined in the continental U.S. mostly to Louisiana and a handful of other coastal areas, Formosan termites are now happily chewing their...
...swells to a passionate finish as the now-human cast waltzes around the stage...nothing happens. The curtain falls, the cast members take their bows, and that's it. One would think that with all of the fireworks in the previous numbers that the finale would have been a huge blowout, but alas, to no avail...